From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Port of Emacs client / server programs to Windows NT
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:28:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <454322A9.7010805@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061028090605.GA16477@janet>
> - It doesn't require Winsock.
>
That might have been important 10 years ago, but now I doubt there are
any installations of Windows 95 without the networking addon used by
Emacs users.
> Would it be worth making the
> code in server.el resort back to running a separate process if the
> :local sockets are not supported?
Maybe a week ago it would have been worth it, but not now that Juanma
has completed his work.
> Or maybe Emacs could be made to use
> named pipes instead of sockets if a :local socket is created on
> Windows as they seem to be the Windows equivalent of Unix domain
> sockets?
>
It might be worth adding cross-platform support for named pipes after
the release.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-28 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-28 9:06 Port of Emacs client / server programs to Windows NT Neil Roberts
2006-10-28 9:28 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2006-10-30 0:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-30 0:59 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-30 1:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-30 7:22 ` Neil Roberts
2006-10-30 8:56 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-10-30 9:11 ` Neil Roberts
2006-10-30 9:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-10-30 10:16 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-10-30 10:39 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-10-30 11:00 ` Jason Rumney
2006-10-30 14:17 ` Neil Roberts
2006-10-30 20:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-10-30 20:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-30 14:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-30 0:58 ` Stefan Monnier
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